Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1896, and the Annual Report of the Secretary of State

Mr. Olney to Mr. Jackson.

Department of State,
Washington , February 26, 1896 .

No. 553.]

Sir: I inclose for your information a copy of a letter¹ dated the 24th instant, from Richard W. McCurdy, esq., president of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, of New York, asking this Department to cause to be presented to the chancellor of the German Empire certain petitions signed by German residents of various parts of the United States requesting that the company in question be relicensed to do business in the Kingdom of Prussia.

You are instructed to transmit the above-mentioned petitions to their destination through the appropriate channel.

I am, etc.,

Richard Olney.

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